Writers

Jenn Ashworth

Northern, working class writer curious about domestic, strange happenings in uncanny landscapes

Harry Josephine Giles

Multiplatform poet and performer, making strange, delightful and political interventions

Kayo Chingonyi

Lyric poet with a passion for music

Leontia Flynn

Writing poetry, sometimes writing about poetry, very occasionally just writing

James Meek

Human writer 

Andrew McMillan

Young poet exploring masculinity and the body

Rhian Edwards

Welsh poet & single mum, twitcher & horror film nut

Naomi Wood

Writer and teacher of novels and films

Ross Sutherland

Exploring new forms across poetry, theatre, film and radio

Sabrina Mahfouz

Trying to make words that make a change, however small

Karrie Fransman

Comic creator/graphic novelist who loves experimenting with visual storytelling 

Olivia Laing

Writer

Patrick McGuinness

Interested in what things look like when we're not looking

Catherine O'Flynn

Novelist, former child detective, specialises in failed utopias, obsolete confectionery

Courttia Newland

Out of the box, inner city, stylistically diverse, musically influenced 

Sarah Perry

Novelist; academic (the Gothic, creative writing); critic (The Guardian, Financial Times); essays (BBC, Guardian, Slightly Foxed)

James Robertson

Scottish novelist, poet: intrigued by time, change, identity, locality, power

Raymond Antrobus

Widely published poet & spoken word educator. Exploring deafness, identity & emotional literacy

Laura Dockrill

baby. granny. annoying. optimistic. potato-eating. writing. drawing. talking. colourful.

Gavin Francis

Writer and doctor exploring geographical, anatomical and cultural landscapes

Horatio Clare

Father, author, teacher, travel writer, university lecturer, walker, farmer 

Kit de Waal

I'm a writer, reader, giggler and baker of mixed heritage

Jenni Fagan

Curious, dedicated, strange, brilliant, complicated, engaged, chatty, funny, loyal, true

Malika Booker

Poet, Playwright, Lecturer, Creative Writing tutor/ Mentor, Engaging reader, Charismatic

Ifor ap Glyn

National Poet of Wales, performer; with un-Londonlike interest in languages 

Isabel Greenberg

Illustrator, writer, comics, graphic novels

Caleb Femi

Poet. English Teacher. Photographer. Filmaker.

Karen McCarthy Woolf

Poet, editor, critic, urban nature, collaboration and translation, diversity advocate

Miriam Gamble

Northern Irish poet; miniaturist; likes to see things skew

Helen Mort

Yorkshire-born, Derbyshire-bred poet, runner and amateur rock climber

Ros Barber

Emotionally lucid novelist of speculative pasts and futures

Sarah Howe

British-Chinese poet, academic and editor, born in Hong Kong